Vance assaults the EU: the hazard comes from inside not from Moscow | EUROtoday

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From our correspondent Berlin – The White House cheers for alternate options Für Deutschland and now it might probably not amaze. After Elon Musk’s open and repeated endorsement, that of the US vice -president, JD Vance, arrived yesterday. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, he urged German politicians to work with all events, together with the extremely -decay: his enterprise card earlier than collaborating within the Monaco convention on worldwide safety. Then the frontal assault on Europe and Germany, from the rostrum of the summit. And within the night the assembly with the chief of AFD, Alice Weidel, in a lodge outdoors the assembly headquarters, to which his get together was not invited.

“In Washington there is a new sheriff,” stated Vance. On the eve, the summit was anticipated to be dominated by the peace interviews between Ukraine and Russia. However, the primary day went in one other route. “Democracy – said Vance – is based on the sacred principle that the voice of the people counts. There is no room for health cords ». The brandmauer, the anti-AFD dam, is in the viewfinder, which in the polls is second with 20%, behind the CDU (30%). In Germany we vote on February 23rd. “There isn’t any German, American or European democracy that may survive when he says to tens of millions of voters that their ideas and their considerations, their aspirations, their requests should not legitimate or worthy of being considered”, he added , reciting the mantra repeated by Alice Weidel, the candidate for the AFD stationery. “If you run away for concern of your personal voters, there may be nothing that America can do for you,” Vance warned.

The vice -president referred directly to the facts that occurred in Munich right on the eve of the conference. “A younger man of about twenty years leads a automobile on the group and throws a group in darkness. How many instances can we nonetheless need to endure this horrible test earlier than altering the course? ». The enhance in unlawful immigration to Europe is “out of control” and is the results of “conscious decisions taken by politicians within a decade”.

The pull has ice the viewers. «The risk that worries me most in direction of Europe – continued Vance – is just not Russia, it isn’t China. I’m involved with the risk from the within, the withdrawal of Europe from its basic values ​​». The assault provides to the specter of duties on European exports, in a framework of relationships which might be introduced a lot, that Trump’s first mandate is already regretted. In the world of the White House, Europe is responsible of getting repressed freedom of speech. His leaders “do not like the idea that someone with an alternative point of view can express a different opinion or, God does not want, vote in a different way or, even worse, win an election,” stated Vance. And once more: “They threatened and intimidated social media to censor the so -called disinformation” a “bad word of the Soviet era”. Any reference to Facebook and X, Musk’s platform, is only needed.

Vance has not neglected to criticize the cancellation of the elections in Romania and a trial in opposition to an anti-abortion protester within the United Kingdom. The reply of the German Defense Minister, Boris Pistorius lasts: “If I understand correctly, Vance is comparing parts of Europe to authoritarian regimes and this is not acceptable”. It is a profound paradigm change, as beforehand warned, President Frank-Walter Steinmeir: «The new American administration has a world imaginative and prescient totally different from ours. A imaginative and prescient that doesn’t take into consideration the principles, alliances, belief ». The day earlier than, Vance had visited Dachau’s Nazi extermination camp, additionally accompanied by a survivor to the Holocaust. © RESERVED REPRODUCTION

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